Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Hate Group Leader To Serve As CA Judge

Gary Kreep, a longtime antigovernment
activist, “birther” and hate group leader who uses anti-Obama rhetoric as a
proxy for anti-Muslim hate, has emerged victorious in a tight race for a seat
on San Diego’s Superior Court, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports.

Kreep, who received the San Diego County Bar
Association’s lowest rating of “lacking qualifications,” beat opponent Garland
Peed, a deputy district attorney of 27 years who received the county bar
association’s highest rating and who was supported by local police unions and
sitting judges.

The San Diego Superior Court is part of the
state’s trial court system, which handles a wide variety of cases, including
civil lawsuits and felony criminal cases. Kreep will serve a six-year term and
earn an annual salary of $178,789.

Discussing his surprise victory with the Tribune, Kreep said, “I think the
government’s increasingly being seen as the enemy. And the idea that we were
going to have more government lawyers become judges is something that resonated
with people.”

Kreep, who in recent years has received
national attention for filing numerous “birther” lawsuits claiming baselessly
that President Obama is constitutionally ineligible for office because he is
supposedly not a U.S. citizen, is no government lawyer.

He is, however, founder and head the United
States Justice Foundation (USJF), an anti-Muslim hate group that insists Muslim
terrorists, with Obama’s help, are engaged in a campaign to destroy the U.S.
Constitution and establish a government based on Islamic Shariah law.